Children and Cancer:
An Atlantic Forum

Agenda

• Friday, September 15
• 8:30 a.m.WelcomeMargaret Low, President, AtlanticLIVE
• 8:35 a.m.Precision Therapy: A Targeted Trial Nita Seibel, National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
  With Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
• 8:55 a.m.View from the HillRep. Brian Higgins (D-NY), Co-Chair, House Cancer Caucus
  With Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
• 9:15 a.m.Eyes on Immunotherapy Timothy P. Cripe, Division Chief, Hematology, Oncology and BMT, Nationwide Children’s Hospital; Researcher, The Ohio University Comprehensive Cancer Center
  Nancy Goodman, Founder and Executive Director, Kids v. Cancer
  Tom Whitehead, Co-Founder, Emily Whitehead Foundation
  With Olga Khazan, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
• 9:40 a.m.A Survivor’s Story Mary Billington, Four-time cancer survivor  
  With Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
• 9:50 a.m.The Human Impact of Childhood Cancer*
  Produced by our underwriter AflacCaroline Belcher, Cancer patient and survivor
  Emily Belcher, Mother of cancer patient Caroline Belcher
  With Catherine Hernandez-Blades, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Aflac
  _{* This session was produced by our underwriter and not by The Atlantic’s editorial team.}
• 10:00 a.m.Big Data and the Quest for Big ResultsBrandi Davis-Dusenbery, CEO, Seven Bridges
  Lillian Meacham, Kathelen V. Amos Children’s Chair for Cancer Survivorship, Aflac Cancer Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University
  Adam Resnick, Director, Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  With Olga Khazan, Staff Writer, The Atlantic